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Pearl A. Gardner has enjoyed success with short story fiction, winning some national competitions. Her articles and stories have been published in popular magazines, both fiction and non-fiction, but she is concentrating on full length works now.

Pearl has a wide ranging and eclectic author list that includes many genres from historical romances to science fiction. She enjoys researching the past and is particularly interested in the First and Second World Wars, where many of her historical romances are set. She also loves the freedom of writing science fiction, but likes to construct her stories around scientific facts or theories.

You can see more of her work and sample tasters of novels in progress on the web site www.pearlagardner.co.uk

Ingrid lived the sheltered life of an elite Nazi socialite until her father was executed by the Gestapo. Then her world turned upside down.

She learned her lover was responsible for betraying her father and vowed never to let another man take her heart.

Feeling guilty about the Nazi beliefs she had lived by, she determines to make amends for her previous acceptance of Hitler’s doctrines. Her self-imposed mission is to save as many oppressed people as she can.

Working with a group of partisans, she learns the skills she needs to fight the Nazi regime, but in the midst of her new and dangerous life, can one liberated Jew steal her heart?

After escaping Europe before the outbreak of WW2, Hannah’s passionate response to the oppression of her fellow Jews leads her back to Germany.

Working with a group of partisans, she helps to rescue Jewish prisoners from their places of hiding, from labour camps and from certain death.

Living with danger, and in constant fear of discovery, she learns her lover is not what he seems. With no-one to confide in, she lives with the oppressive menace of his secrets and lies. If the truth got out, it would threaten the safety of the whole operation.

1973 – The hidden terrors of Cassie’s past have prevented her from embracing life as fully as she might have. The Polish immigrant leads a quiet life as a nurse but when her friend’s daughter asks to interview her for a Remembrance Day feature in the local newspaper; the long forgotten memories begin to surface and help to set her free.

1943 - After an outrageous abuse by a German soldier, Cassie escaped from the Lodz ghetto in Poland. A group of partisans found the sixteen-year-old and her younger sister and helped them to cross Europe in an audacious plan to reach safety.

Travelling thousands of miles through enemy territory, Cassie endured some terrifying ordeals and survived on starvation rations. She lived in constant fear of patrols and ambushes, but her world changed when a young Austrian Jew befriended her.

Under the extreme conditions of trying to escape the holocaust, friendship soon turned to love, and Gunter became the focal point of her chaotic life.

Was Cassie resilient enough to travel the infamous freedom trails to reach the safety she craved? Would Gunter give up his partisan life to join her?

After a devastating air-raid, a young woman finds herself trapped in the ruins of a building. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. The only fact she is certain of is adding to her confusion. Her thoughts are in German, but her rescuers are speaking English.

When asked what her name is, she is disturbed to realise she doesn't know the answer.

As parts of her memory slowly return, she begins to understand her life has not been easy but is afraid to tell anyone about the incriminating and confusing fragments she can recall.

Not knowing who to trust, she sets out to uncover the mystery of who she is, and why she is in Sheffield when her home country is at war with England.

Gladys hides a secret past that could ruin her marriage, but fortunately for her, John is still away, fighting. With the war in its fifth year, she believes the gossips may have forgotten her past mistakes, but still worries what might happen if her husband should ever learn what she’d done. When she comes into an inheritance, she uncovers more family secrets that are just as troubling as her own. Should she tell what she knows, or let the past stay hidden? Will she be forced to live her life looking over her shoulder, or will she ever know peace?

Nicolette was raised in England but her French roots go deep. She is determined to follow in the footsteps of her maternal grandmother to try fight for her country in the war with Germany.

Her fiancé is less than enthusiastic about enlisting which causes her to rethink her relationship. Instead of getting married on her twenty-second birthday, she embarks on a dangerous course that will lead her back Verdun, the home of her family.

She works undercover to defend her country of birth, and the homeland of her ancestors. Blending seamlessly into the local population she uncovers secrets, from the present and the past, and moves into a future that she had never dreamed possible.

Belle is nineteen in the late nineteenth century. The world is changing rapidly, but in France, in the district of Verdun, life flows at a slower pace. Belle is in love with her childhood friend and hopes he feels the same way. While visiting the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in the most romantic place in the world, Julien proposes but to her disappointment he does not speak of love.

Belle settles for a marriage of convenience, but realises her mistake when she discovers the husband she adores has a terrible secret that could ruin both their families. Can she find the courage to confront him? How can she love him after such a betrayal? How will she protect her family?

This is the first story in an epic three book saga that will cross two centuries, three generations and two world wars. Book Two, Belle’s Girls will be coming soon.

Taste the terror, the love, and the hardships endured by ordinary families in this mesmerizing WW2 romance set in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Hazel found happiness with Glenn. She married her sweetheart and is excited to be expecting their first child, but war is on the horizon. What will the menace of conflict mean for her and her unborn child? Glenn is a miner and believes he will be safe from the call-up, but when his pals begin to enlist, Hazel fears her happiness won’t last. Will he leave her to fight for his country? What about her baby? How will she manage without him when the bombs begin to fall on Wakefield?

In this mesmerising romance, the outbreak of war gives Eunice the chance to break free of her bonds and escape her humdrum life. The Women’s Land Army offers her an exciting opportunity to delay her plans to marry and spread her wings.

Her sweetheart goes to war believing she’ll wait for him. Eunice doesn’t love him as she should, and her overwhelming guilt prevents her from writing to tell him how she feels. How can she break his heart while he’s fighting for his country?

She embarks on a thrilling adventure, making new friends and learning new skills, but something is missing from her life. Her friends are living for the moment and taking every opportunity to have fun, to dance, to fool around, and fall in love. “We could be dead tomorrow,” are the words they say to excuse their behaviour. Eventually, Eunice is persuaded to join them, and she meets a handsome airman.

Feeling guilty for betraying Kenny, she embarks on a passionate affair and hopes to find the kind of love she’d always dreamed of.

How will she break things off with Kenny?

How will she live with the guilt?

Will things work out for her as she hopes they might?

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As the clouds of war gather, young Hazel is falling in love. She is charmed by a sensitive young man from a mining family, and passion sweeps her common sense away. Fearing her parents might not approve of his background, she keeps her affair secret.

Her sweetheart hides a darker side that Hazel finds exciting, but when he becomes possessive, she discovers he might not be the man she thought he was. Are the rumours about him true? Is he really responsible for hurting her friend? Can she trust him with her heart?

In the middle of the First World War, Collette is afraid for her fiancé, Antoine, who is fighting to save the town of Verdun. They should have been married by now, but the war put a halt to their plans. Her sister Felicity is secretly in love with Antoine but hides her feelings. Only their mother knows of her pain, but Belle is too involved with helping to feed the stricken soldiers to offer support to her youngest. Felicity helps in the casualty station in the grounds of the chateau, assisting the Australian nurses to care for the injured and dying. Collette helps her mother and finds herself drawn to the dangerous work of taking food to the front line. The turmoil of war changes the lives of the two French girls who are both in love with the same man. Who will Antoine choose and what will the consequences of that choice mean to the family?

World War Two interrupts Evelyn’s life when her husband, Dennis decides to enlist. After a tragedy in the street, her mother, Nora, confesses secrets that rock the foundations of Evelyn’s world. When a telegram informs her that Dennis suffered wounds in action, she has no idea what to expect. His injury changes everything. More secrets are revealed and Evelyn finds she’s been living in a web of lies for years. Determined to fight to keep her family together, she faces an uphill struggle. Will she win the fight? Can life ever be the same again?